Legal proceedings involving probate, trusts and wills typically include family members and loved ones of the deceased. These proceedings require attorneys who are both knowledgeable of relevant laws but who show empathy and sympathy while managing legal matters.

Our caring and knowledgeable attorneys represent fiduciaries and beneficiaries of estates, trusts and guardianships. We represent personal representatives in the administration of estates and trusts. We advise individual and corporate trustees concerning their fiduciary duties and obligations. We represent estates in federal and state estate tax audits and disputes, and we represent and advise our clients in various phases of probate and trust litigation (including construing and reforming the terms of wills and trusts) We assert and defend will contest actions and surcharge actions, actions to remove fiduciaries; exceptions to inventories, and creditors’ claims made against an estate.